Damian Drum (Nicholls, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

The very best that they could come up with was that they thought we could have a floor price above the cost of milk production. Where do you set the cost of production? Is it someone who owns their own water, someone who has scale of property, someone who has low debt, someone who owns all their property, someone who has a rotary dairy, someone who's providing their milk to an organic processor or someone who's providing it to a niche market in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne? How do you set the cost of production? It's absolutely impossible. The Labor Party knew it was impossible and they thought it was a great idea to go down that path.

Mr Katter interjecting—

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